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Union paper mill workers rally amid contract negotiations 2024-10-09 [New Ctr ME]

Union Construction Academy graduates first Women in the Trades cohort 2024-09-10 [Mainebiz]

Union leaders, labor activists in Maine push for more workers' rights during Labor Day weekend 2024-09-02 [News Center ME]

Graduate workers’ union bemoans pace of negotiations with UMaine System 2024-05-03 [The Press-Herald]

UMaine Graduate Workers Union to host rally amidst contract negotiation with administrative bargaining team 2024-03-23 [The Maine Campus]

Child care workers to see pay increases 2024-01-07 [News Ctr ME]

Woodland Pulp, union workers reach tentative agreement to end strike 2023-11-24 [WABI]

Woodland Pulp union workers to begin strike this weekend 2023-10-15 [News Centre]

SEIU Maine Service Employees Association, Local 1989 holds demonstration for improved wages 2023-09-04 [Centralmaine]

Navy shipbuilders' union approves 3-year labor pact at Bath Iron Works 2023-08-21 [AP]

Union workers at Westbrook paper mill agree to contract that includes raises, bonuses 2023-07-23 [News Ctr ME]

Gov. Janet Mills signs bill to protect workers from retaliation 2023-07-18 [ME Senate]

Maine Teamsters Celebrate Worker Free Speech Legislation 2023-07-14 [Teamsters]

Striking Brunswick coffee shop workers dig in 2023-06-16 [Press Herald]

State House Kills “Right to Work” Legislation Prohibiting Employment Conditional on Payment of Union Dues 2023-06-10 [Maine Wire]

Maine adjunct professors join push for wage increases 2023-05-28 [The Press-Herald]

UMaine officials considering voluntary recognition of grad students’ union 2023-05-15 [The Beacon]

Brunswick coffee shop employees strike after forming union 2023-05-09 [The Times Record]

University of Maine graduate student workers push to form union For more info 2023-03-29 [NBC]

'We need somebody to help us': Portland postal workers rally for safer working conditions 2022-12-19 [WGME]

Maine Med nurses vote overwhelmingly to ratify first union contract 2022-09-23 [National Nurses United]

Maine med nurses reach final agreement on historic first union contract 2022-09-16 [National Nurses United]

Maine stores could see more union efforts thanks to its small size 2022-08-10 [Bangor Daily News]

Waterville KVCAP drivers vote to unionize, saying they're ‘woefully underpaid and undervalued' 2020-10-23 [Central ME]

‘Join us in this effort': Machinists Union calls on Trump to help BIW workers in strike efforts 2020-07-05 [News Ctr ME]

Maine unions support ‘Medicare for All' 2020-03-01 [Press Herald]

Take it from the Maine AFL-CIO: Paul LePage Is A Threat To Maine's Workers 2022-07-01 [ME Dems]

Raft of workers' comp reforms raises alarms 2019-04-21 [Press Herald]

Compromise bill to boost workers' comp benefits for some becomes law 2019-06-19 [Press Herald]

Scarborough teachers' contract dispute gets national visibility via Bernie Sanders tweet 2020-01-02 [Press Herald]

BIW workers are pushed to settle, but no one's making demands of General Dynamics 2020-08-04 [Press Herald]

Maine Voices: Restaurant series doesn't represent Portland food workers' perspective 2021-05-29 [Portland Press Herald]

The tables have turned and it's a workers' market 2021-06-27 [Press Herald]

Chipotle closes a store in Maine, and workers claim its retribution for a unionization drive 2022-07-21 [New York Times]

Hospital workers say they experience assault, threats of violence nearly every day 2022-07-10 [Sun Jrnl]

Biddeford workers say their push to unionize comes from love of their jobs 2022-05-31 [Yahoo]

Houlton regional hospital nurses ratify new contract with strong measures to improve patient safety and nurse retention 2022-04-08 [National Nurses United]

Labor unions form new group to combat climate change in Maine 2022-03-02 [MPR]

Maine med-emergency room nurses speak out on workplace violence, demand greater protections from Maine medical centre 2022-02-24 [National Nurses United]

Skowhegan paper mill workers rally for better wages, benefits 2022-02-26 [Maine Public]

Bill would make more than 30,000 salaried workers in Maine eligible for overtime 2022-01-28 [Press Herald]

Portland workers rally to keep hazard pay ahead of pivotal council vote 2022-01-03 [Portland Press Herald]

Portland Museum of Art, union ink first labor contract 2021-11-25 [Maine Biz]

Supreme Court rejects Maine health care workers' effort to block COVID-19 vaccine mandate 2021-10-31 [CBS]

Labor Day marks end of pandemic unemployment benefits, impacting thousands of Mainers 2021-09-07 [WGME]

Nurses urge Maine Medical Centreto maintain covid protections for caregivers 2021-09-05 [National Nurses United]

Opinion: Public Utility Campaigns Have A Labor Problem 2021-07-28 [Strikewave]

Abbott Labs will lay off more than 300 workers in southern Maine 2021-07-09 [ME Biz]

Farm labor contractor pays $56K in penalties for violating migrant worker, immigration laws after a vehicle accident that injured 14 workers in Maine 2021-07-08 [US DOL]

With Workers In Short Supply, Seniors Often Wait Months For Home Health Care 2021-06-30 [Blue Ridge PR]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-11-1962 Strike at New York Daily News by the Newspaper Guild precedes a larger strike at multiple newspapers [more]

1-11-1918 Scab driver crashes a NYC subway train during labour dispute: 97 die, 255 injured. [more]

1-11-1835 Philadelphia - first general strike in US history - for a 10 hour. [more]

1-11-1919 Some 400,000 soft coal miners strike for higher wages and shorter hours. [more]

1-11-1887 37 black sugar workers are killed in Louisiana when the militia and some citizens shoot at unarmed strikers demanding a salary of $ 1 a day. Two organizers are lynched. [more]

2-11-1920 SPUSA and railway workers' union leader Eugene V. Debs receives nearly one million votes for Presidency of the United States. [more]

2-11-1909 150 arrested in IWW free speech fight, Spokane, Washington [more]

3-11-1921 Striking milk truck drivers in New York City dump thousands of gallons of milk on the streets. [more]

5-11-1885 Eugene V. Debs, leading figure in the railway workers unions, the IWW and the American Socialist Party, was born. [more]

8-11-1892 20,000 workers, black and white, strike in New Orleans for union recognition and wage increases. [more]

9-11-1935 The Committee for Industrial Organization is formed, breaking away from the American Federation of Labor. [more]

10-11-1933 America's first Depression-era sit-down strike occurs at the Hormel food plant in Austin, Minnesota. [more]

11-11-1831 Slave rebellion leader Nat Turner is hanged for his role leading a slave revolt 3 months earlier in Virginia. [more]

11-11-1887 Execution of the Haymarket Martyrs for their alleged role in the bombing at a labour rally at Haymarket Square in Chicago a year earlier. [more]

12-11-1892 Workers in New Orleans win a 10 hour day and overtime pay, after a four-day general strike led by racially integrated unions [more]

13-11-1974 Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers union activist Karen Silkwood dies in suspicious car crash while driving documents to a reporter. [more]

14-11-1938 Foundation of the National Federation of Telephone Workers (later Communications Workers of America) in New Orleans. [more]

16-11-1948 In solidarity with the French miners' strike, American dockers refuse to load coal bound for France. [more]

18-11-1938 The Congress of Industrial Organisations elects John L. Lewis as its first president [more]

19-11-1915 Joe Hill, a Swedish-American organiser for the Industrial Workers of the World, is framed and executed for murder in Utah. [more]

20-11-1896 Rose Pesotta born. Anarchist labour activist & only woman on board of Intl Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (ILGWU). [more]

26-11-1913 Wobblies Joe Ettor Arturo Giovannitti and Joseph Caruso acquitted for murdering picket Anna LoPizzo during the Lawrence textile workers strike. [more]

27-11-1884 Anarchist A.R. Parsons addresses a Thanksgiving Day hunger march in Chicago. [more]

28-11-1908 154 coal miners die in an explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania. Engineer and Superintendent Beeson informs newspapers that he inspected it a few minutes before the explosion and found it in perfect condition. [more]

29-11-1980 Dorothy Day, suffragist, Christian anarchist, and founder of the Catholic Worker movement, dies today in New York City aged 83. [more]

30-11-1951 Over 12,000 insurance agents strike in 35 states and Washington DC against the Prudential Insurance Company [more]

30-11-1930 Death of Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones). Considered "the most dangerous woman in America" by politicians and employers. Founding member of IWW, organized steel, railroad, textile, mine workers, and women. Crusaded against child labor. [more]